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Of course Eich becoming a Mozilla higher-up (even before becoming CEO) is why browsers became so complicated and expensive to develop. We would have been bette

• BrendanEich 5y ago
  ("throwaway81523", ok; I'll take the bait.) Check your chronology: I wasn't a Mozilla higher-up when HTML 4.0 replaced 3.2. IE won the first browser war and MS was instrumental along with Dave Raggett in finalizing HTML 4. MS also was all-in on "JScript" by that point, having contributed to the ECMA-262 standard as I describe here: https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.12.html https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.12.html I was not a "Mozilla higher-up" during this period, I was not in management. From engineer role doing JS in 1995, I was promoted to Principal Engineer at Netscape by 1997. So your chronology there is bogus. Also, mozilla.org did not exist until late 1997, and was not launched until April 1, 1998. Once again you are out to lunch on history, out of some bizarre desire to blame me personally for the web standards in full, and consequently browsers that implement them, being so complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#HTML_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#HTML_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars